AMNH301, Bed 58a, Rasuvilca Hills section 9, Pajege Canyon (Permian to of Peru)

Where: Ayacucho, Peru (12.8° S, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 50.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Copacabana Group, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• 9, Huanta

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Limestone, gray, even-bedded.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: N. D. Newell, J. Chronic, and T.G. Roberts. 1953. Upper Paleozoic of Peru. Geological Society of America Memoir 58:1-276 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41378: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita subtilita
Composita subtilita Hall 1852
n. ssp. peruviana
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia sicuaniensis
Hustedia sicuaniensis Chronic 1949
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Wellerella bidentata
Wellerella bidentata Girty 1908
n. ssp. parva
 Orthida - Enteletidae
Enteletes gibbosus
Enteletes gibbosus Chronic 1949
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomariidae indet.
Pleurotomariidae indet. Swainson 1840 snail